[U-Boot] [RFC] Is anyone interested IPv6 support for u-boot
Hi,
Here at $dayjob we make embedded network devices (routers & switches). Because we have an interest in getting people to adopt IPv6 we've added code to our local u-boot repository to add basic IPv6 support on our boards. It's not a fully conformant IPv6 host implementation but it is enough to be able to statically configure an IPv6 address and download images from a v6 capable TFTP server.
We're trying to be better FLOSS citizens so I'm proposing to my colleagues that we put some effort in getting this pushed upstream. The first step of which would be to see if anyone wants the feature and is the /net maintainer willing to take on this code (not that we intend to dump and run).
Our existing code is a little too tightly coupled to our out of tree board support so I don't have a preliminary patchset to provide. If there is interest I'll work on porting it from our tree to a vanilla u-boot tree (we have a couple of supported eval boards around).
Thanks for reading, Chris Packham
Hi Chris,
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Here at $dayjob we make embedded network devices (routers & switches). Because we have an interest in getting people to adopt IPv6 we've added code to our local u-boot repository to add basic IPv6 support on our boards. It's not a fully conformant IPv6 host implementation but it is enough to be able to statically configure an IPv6 address and download images from a v6 capable TFTP server.
We're trying to be better FLOSS citizens so I'm proposing to my colleagues that we put some effort in getting this pushed upstream. The first step of which would be to see if anyone wants the feature and is the /net maintainer willing to take on this code (not that we intend to dump and run).
I'm certainly interested in entertaining any network stack patches, and IPv6 support is certainly useful.
Our existing code is a little too tightly coupled to our out of tree board support so I don't have a preliminary patchset to provide. If there is interest I'll work on porting it from our tree to a vanilla u-boot tree (we have a couple of supported eval boards around).
Please make sure you have a look at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches if you haven't already. That will make it much easier to accept your patches. You may also want to use the patman and buildman tools to help you manage your patch-series.
Thanks in advance, -Joe
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Chris,
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Here at $dayjob we make embedded network devices (routers & switches). Because we have an interest in getting people to adopt IPv6 we've added
code
to our local u-boot repository to add basic IPv6 support on our boards.
It's
not a fully conformant IPv6 host implementation but it is enough to be
able
to statically configure an IPv6 address and download images from a v6 capable TFTP server.
We're trying to be better FLOSS citizens so I'm proposing to my
colleagues
that we put some effort in getting this pushed upstream. The first step
of
which would be to see if anyone wants the feature and is the /net
maintainer
willing to take on this code (not that we intend to dump and run).
I'm certainly interested in entertaining any network stack patches, and IPv6 support is certainly useful.
OK. I'll try and get started as soon as I get a chance. Might need to get some clearance from $overlords to spend work time on it (or $wife to spend spare time on it). Should I base the patches on git:// git.denx.de/u-boot-net.git or the main u-boot.git or something else?
Our existing code is a little too tightly coupled to our out of tree
board
support so I don't have a preliminary patchset to provide. If there is interest I'll work on porting it from our tree to a vanilla u-boot tree
(we
have a couple of supported eval boards around).
Please make sure you have a look at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches if you haven't already. That will make it much easier to accept your patches. You may also want to use the patman and buildman tools to help you manage your patch-series.
Yep will do. Part of the reason I haven't sent what we've got currently is that it would be a big amorphous dump of code and I don't want to waste peoples time when I should be able to break it up into a series of logical commits.
Thanks in advance, -Joe
Hi Chris,
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Chris Packham judge.packham@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Here at $dayjob we make embedded network devices (routers & switches). Because we have an interest in getting people to adopt IPv6 we've added code to our local u-boot repository to add basic IPv6 support on our boards. It's not a fully conformant IPv6 host implementation but it is enough to be able to statically configure an IPv6 address and download images from a v6 capable TFTP server.
We're trying to be better FLOSS citizens so I'm proposing to my colleagues that we put some effort in getting this pushed upstream. The first step of which would be to see if anyone wants the feature and is the /net maintainer willing to take on this code (not that we intend to dump and run).
I'm certainly interested in entertaining any network stack patches, and IPv6 support is certainly useful.
OK. I'll try and get started as soon as I get a chance. Might need to get some clearance from $overlords to spend work time on it (or $wife to spend spare time on it). Should I base the patches on git://git.denx.de/u-boot-net.git or the main u-boot.git or something else?
Please base it on the main u-boot.git.
Our existing code is a little too tightly coupled to our out of tree board support so I don't have a preliminary patchset to provide. If there is interest I'll work on porting it from our tree to a vanilla u-boot tree (we have a couple of supported eval boards around).
Please make sure you have a look at http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches if you haven't already. That will make it much easier to accept your patches. You may also want to use the patman and buildman tools to help you manage your patch-series.
Yep will do. Part of the reason I haven't sent what we've got currently is that it would be a big amorphous dump of code and I don't want to waste peoples time when I should be able to break it up into a series of logical commits.
-Joe
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